Definition of Dominium

1. the right of ownership and control of property [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dominium

dominicide
dominicides
dominicker
dominickers
dominicks
dominie
dominies
dominion
dominionism
dominionist
dominionists
dominionless
dominions
dominiques
dominitrix
dominium (current term)
dominiums
domino computer
domino computers
domino costume
domino effect
domino theory
dominoes
dominolike
dominos
dominus
dominus vobiscum
domiodol
domiphen bromide

Literary usage of Dominium

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Law Reports by John Fraser Macqueen, Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords (1869)
"The general rule is, that when a consolidation of the dominium utile and the dominium directum takes place, the dominium utile is merged or swallowed up in ..."

2. Lectures on Jurisprudence, Or, The Philosophy of Positive Law by John Austin (1885)
"... that the Roman lawyers confined the expositors term dominium to dominium rci ... or dominium (or absolute Roman property) over a single thing ; and this ..."

3. Outlines of Roman Law: Comprising Its Historical Growth and General Principles by William Carey Morey (1914)
"In the technical language of the Roman law, dominium, or complete ownership, ... dominium, it will be remembered, referred originally to that right of ..."

4. Private Law Among the Romans: From the Pandects by John George Phillimore (1863)
"... dominium NATURALE IN ... Increase common to the dominium ... the dominium gave rise were; 1, rei vindicatio; 2, ..."

5. Inquiry Into the Law and Practice in Scottish Peerages, Before, and After by John Riddell (1842)
"In the last instance, the " dominium," or Lordship, even precedes the Comitatum, ... The conveyance in 1603, of the old family lordship or dominium (of ..."

6. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities by William Smith (1859)
"Things cannot be the objects of possessio civilis which cannot "be the objects of dominium. Certain things are not properly object* of ownership (dominium), ..."

7. A Systematic and Historical Exposition of Roman Law in the Order of a Code by William Alexander Hunter, John Ashton Cross, Gaius (1885)
"IN the Roman Law, dominium is used sometimes with a narrower, and sometimes with a ... But dominium is generally used with a more restricted application, ..."

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